Peperomia guapilesiana

The type specimen was collected in Guápiles, Costa Rica at an altitude of 300-500 meters. Peperomia guapilesiana is a rhizomatous, erect herb. The stem is moderately stout at 5 millimeters thick and covered with yellowish woolly hairs. The leaves are alternate, elliptic, rather blunt at both ends, and large, ranging from 3.5 by 5 centimeters to 6 by 12 centimeters. They are dull, granular, paler beneath and covered with woolly hairs, especially on the nerves. The leaves are pinnately veined from below the upper third, with branches of the midrib numbering about 5 pairs by 2. The petiole is very woolly-haired and short at 2 centimeters long. The spikes are loosely arranged in whorls at the nodes of a somewhat compound, very woolly-haired panicle about 15 centimeters long on a stalk of equal length. The spikes themselves are rather small at scarcely 2 by 30 to 35 millimeters, and blunt. The peduncle is short at 5 millimeters and woolly-haired. The floral bracts are rounded and shield-shaped (peltate). The berries are elongate-obovoid, pale brown, without a beak. The stigma is oblique.

It is endemic in Nicaragua to Panama. It grows as an epiphyte and is a herb. It grows on wet tropical biomes.